Author: Tom
The Historic Route of Cereals
Grocery stores devote plenty of shelf space to cereals, but the historic route those breakfast foods took to get there may just surprise you…
The Copper Queen Mine
Under the earth in southern Arizona you’ll find a place that brought people to the dry, wide open stretches of this place…
Some of the Best Loved Dogs in the World
They are some of the best known and most loved dogs in the world…
A Museum with Big Artifacts
It’s a museum with some of the biggest artifacts you’ll find and you can walk right up to just about everyone of them. I’ll take…
Higher and Faster than a Plane
When you think of an Air Force base you of course think of air planes. But at this base, the main feature was something that…
A Presidential Retreat
People have long recognized this place as a prime spot to get away from it all. During the term of FDR, the oval office realized…
A One-time Disaster Area
There was a time when these hills were a seeming disaster area. Fires and erosion had driven farmers from the land and the once beautiful…
Boston’s Black Tide
When a massive tank of molasses burst on Boston’s Commerical Street in 1919, 21 lives were lost in the resulting disaster. But many people don’t…
A Wall of Molasses
At first it may sound like a hoax, a wall of molasses moving through the city of Boston swallowing everything in its path. But the…
An Oasis in the Middle of a Desert
It is truly an oasis in the middle of a desert, a place where rails, roads and range meet. We go to the Mojave Desert…